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What is your favorite quote of all time? (programming.dev)
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[–] 14 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (2 children)

"Gentlemen, I don’t know whether we are going to make history tomorrow, but at any rate we shall change geography"

General Sir Charles Harrington

Just before one of the largest non-nuclear explosions was detonated.

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  • [–] 5 points 2 years ago*

    Not as positive, but definitely one of the quotes that gave me chills (and made more popular due to recent movie, I hope this is in the movie):

    Now I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds

    - Robert Oppenheimer, 1965 (quoting the Hindu scripture, the Bhagavad-Gita: Vishnu)

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